Towards reducing disparities in disparities research.

A Mathematical Programing Model of Budget Allocation for Development Disparities Reduction among Iran Provinces

The issues of disparities, regional imbalance development and attempt to reducing development disparities among various regions have been attracted considerable attention among researchers, planners and policy makers. In this regard, this study employs a mathematical programing model for budget resources allocation among Iran provinces in order to development disparities reduction among them. I...

Tabriz Intra-urban Spatial Disparities

To achieve sustainable urban development and values from social justice; it is essential that all citizens enjoy resources, facilities and life opportunities equally. Due to lack of a stable or systematic approach of measuring urban problems, disparity in environmental conditions or access to social and physical infrastructures is more obvious, especially in the cities of developing countries. ...

Health Care Analysis And Regional Disparities In Different Provinces Of Iran

بررسی ارتباط بین ساختار فضایی و نابرابری‌های منطقه‌ای در استان‌های کشور

Introduction Assumptions about relationship between spatial structure and regional disparities reduction once has attracted the attention of policy makers and scholars alongside with the introduction of polycentric development policies in Europe and national level during the recent decades. Accordingly the present article attempted by examining the economic and experimental test of such assu...

Measuring health disparities: a comparison of absolute and relative disparities

Monitoring national trends in disparities in different diseases could provide measures to evaluate the impact of intervention programs designed to reduce health disparities. In the US, most of the reports that track health disparities provided either relative or absolute disparities or both. However, these two measures of disparities are not only different in scale and magnitude but also the te...